Repair Credit? Repair Credit Scores? Is it Worth All The Extra Effort?
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http://www.LegacyLegal.com Repair Credit? Repair Credit Scores? Credit bureaus don’t like to repair credit or to repair credit scores. They make money by selling your information, and banks make even more money and charge higher interest rates to people who have late payments and other derogatory remarks. Repairing your credit and credit scores is worth it. In today’s economy, you need to have the best credit rating and credit scores to get the best rates on loans, and insurance, and even to get a better paying job.
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Repair Credit? Repair Credit Scores? Is it Worth All The Extra Effort?
- 1. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Check Credit Report & Get Only Official FICO Scores ® 850 750 300 Get Credit Reports: www.CreditReportsToGo.com
- 2. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Make a List of All Errors: Recent Changes Personal Information, Aliases Address History Employment Information & History Trade Lines, Pay History Public Records Collection Accounts
- 3. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Common Mistakes: Misspelled Or Common Name Misspelled/Wrong Address Misspelled/Wrong Spouse Wrong Employment History Wrong SSN Belongs to Someone Else
- 4. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Items Could Belong to Family Members Wife You Son Joint Account Holders Brother Ex-Wife Son You Wife
- 5. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Inaccurate Late Payments Must be Accurate Must Be Verifiable If Not: It‘s Not Legal, Get Lates Removed 10th 1st 10th More than 30 Not 30 Days Date or More! Due January February
- 6. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Balance to Credit Limit Ratio Changes Can Hurt! Limit Limit Reduced Limit Balance Balance 25% = Good 75% = Bad
- 7. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Collections & Public Records: Judgments Liens Foreclosures Collection Agencies Delinquent Accounts Paid off, But Not Reported $0
- 8. Repair Credit & Repair Credit Scores Analyze Everything on Your Report Collections & Public Records: Paying Them off Doesn’t Help Judgments Liens Foreclosures Collection Agencies Delinquent Accounts
- 9. Selecting a Credit Repair Service Credit Bureaus Don’t Perform And Play Word Games with the Law Their Definition of “Accurate“: = Must Be Verifiable Yours/Ours:= Must be Legally Reported and Accurate, Not Just a Verifiable Mistake
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Editor's Notes
- Repair Credit? Repair Credit Scores? Is it Worth All The Extra Effort? You should check your credit reports and official credit scores at least once a year, or more often, when you are preparing for a large purchase, such as a home or car. If you haven't seen your credit reports and credit scores in the past ninety days, you should go to creditreportstogo.com their credit reports and format are simple to read and understand, and unlike other sites, they offer official credit scores.
- Once you have the credit report and scores, you need to analyze it. It’s not hard to do. To repair credit and repair credit scores you will need to look for both obvious and subtle errors. Don’t assume that small errors don’t hurt you. Examine everything; Go through trade lines, look at the payment history, balance and credit limits. Make a list of every error or recent change.
- The most common type of error to repair are mistakes associated with your name, your address, previous addresses and employment history. Often a misspelled name or incorrect address can result in someone else’s credit items showing on your credit report.
- Another common error is credit items that belong to family members appearing on your credit report. Spouses and ex-spouses and children are a major example of what causes credit report errors, identity theft and confusion of reporting data. It’s a common practice for parents to name their children after themselves, such as junior, senior, and so forth. But this also leads to children and parents, and spouses inheriting each others credit items, both good and bad. Joint accounts between spouses or children should appear on both of their credit reports, not just one or the other. Are you sure it was a joint account, or is it an error? If it is your spouses or child’s credit item, and there is a late payment on your credit, but the account is not a joint account, then it is not accurate.
- Also look for inaccurate late payments. If your monthly payment was due on January 10th and you did not make your January payment until February 1st, yes you are late, but you are not 30 days late or more. If the creditor has reported you as 30 days late and it was actually 29, that is an error and the law states it must be removed. It’s also a common practice for creditors and banks to charge you a late fee. They also go one step further and charge you a late fee, for not paying a late fee in a timely manner. It’s not legal in most states, but it happens frequently.
- Look for balance and credit limit changes. Scrutinize everything because it all has an impact on your credit rating and credit scores. It is a common practice for credit card companies and banks to drop your credit limit. This will affect your balance-to-credit limit ratio which governs 30% of your credit score. If your balance is more than 25% of your credit limit, you need to pay down your debts repair your credit score.
- Look for collection accounts and public records. To repair credit and repair credit scores, you must address all collection accounts and public records such as judgments and liens. These are among the most damaging of items. Yes, you may have been sued and yes a judge may have heard your case. That doesn’t mean the item is reported accurately, and if it’s not accurate, it is not allowed by law to be placed on your credit history. The most common error of this kind is not reporting a judgment or a lien as satisfied, meaning paid off. It is true that a paid off negative item is better than an unpaid negative item. Paying off an item does not change it from negative to positive. However, it is better to not have the negative item on your report at all. So if it’s not correctly reported, try to get the item removed, not just corrected.
- Correcting a public record is useless. It’s kind of like being convicted of a crime, and correcting it is like being put on parole. It is better that the conviction, or negative item not appear on your report at all. If the bureaus won’t take off the item, you may want to consult your attorney to petition the court to have the public record expunged, which can be expensive. Having an unpaid judgment is not a crime, but it can make you a high credit risk If you cannot afford an attorney to do this for you, you should hire an affordable credit repair company to repair credit and repair credit scores.
- Credit bureaus don’t like to repair credit or to repair credit scores. They make money by selling your information, and banks make even more money and charge higher interest rates to people who have late payments and other derogatory remarks. Credit bureaus also play word games with the credit reporting laws. They define the word “Accurate” as an item that has been verified at the source, after it has been challenged. So by their definition of accurate, it could be said that nothing on your credit report is accurate until they verify the information with the source, after you challenge it’s accuracy.
- Repairing your credit and credit scores is worth it. In today’s economy, you need to have the best credit rating and credit scores to get the best rates on loans, and insurance, and even to get a better paying job. You can do it on your own, it is just tedious and requires effort and determination. If you don’t have the time to do it yourself, hire an affordable credit repair company.
- Thank you.